The Division of Consciousness :
The Secret Afterlife of the Human Psyche
by Peter Novak
308 pages
Published by Hampton Roads Pub Co
Publication date: May 1, 1997
ISBN: 1571740538
Publisher's Synopsis:
After death, are we reborn to live another life here, or do our spirits cross over to an eternal afterlife? Eastern and Western philosophies have disagreed on this point for thousands of years. But a compelling new theory has recently arisen, suggesting for the first time that it may be possible for each of these ancient perspectives to be true simultaneously. After the tragic suicide of his wife, Peter Novak immersed himself for 10 years into the study of the evidence for the souul's survival after death. Studying mythology, psychology, religion and science, as well as past-life regression, near death experiences, and reports of ghosts and apparitions, Novak ultimately realized that a single scientific theory could neatly account for virtually all reported afterlife phenomena, suggesting that these reports all have a common basis in reality.
The deceptively simple premise of Novak's "DivisionTheory" is that our psyches do survive the demise of the physical body, but at the tragic cost of being ripped apart into two separate pieces, each of which goes on without the other into a different, crippled afterlife experience. The conscious mind, known for eons in the East as the Spirit, loses its memory and goes on to reincarnate. The unconscious mind, known for eons in the West as the Soul, becomes trapped in a heavenly or hellish afterlife dreamworld of its own unwitting creation. This startling conclusion not only explains the differences between many of the world's great religions, but also shows that humanity's intuitions about the soul's survival has a reality separate and distinct from the mind's philosophical conflicts.
Reviews:
The author, Peter Novak (division@csinet.net)
(http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Forum/6696),
06/04/97:
My book, The Division of Consciousness, reintroduces the original death-theology
of the earliest Christian religion, the single most important discovery
in all of human history. Lost for 2,000 years, this theology, which I term
"Division Theory", is based on an obvious parallel between recent
psychological discoveries and certain passages within the long-lost Christian
Gospels unearthed in Nag Hammadi Egypt in 1945 (the texts of which were
only just publicly released in 1977). A overview of the book can be found
at the Divison Theory Web Page (above).